Just been fired for gross misconduct

Energize

Really depends on who you work for as to the employers attitude, at my previous place of employment it was common for staff to have their company email accounts downloaded onto their phones and personal computers to work at home.

Savvy_Sue

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

I'm not sure if handbooks include exhaustive lists of what amounts to GM.

No, never exhaustive. If you did try to give an exhaustive list you can bet some idiot would do something NOT on the list and then say "it can't be GM because it's not on the list."

Manxman_in_exile

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

No, never exhaustive. If you did try to give an exhaustive list you can bet some idiot would do something NOT on the list and then say "it can't be GM because it's not on the list."

That's what I was trying to say...cryptically...

steampowered

The fact that this was data relating to vulnerable people, and the fact you work for a law firm (which presumably trained you on this sort of thing) is beginning to make this sound like gross misconduct unfortunately.

There's no harm in asking to get paid for your notice period I suppose but I wouldn't go down the legal road.

steampowered

OK, I confess that in the past I have emailed myself spreadsheets containing client data, in order to work on them at home. I was *really* shocked to discover what a serious offence this is, nowadays, under GPDR

I don't think emailing this is necessarily a breach of the GDPR. There's nothing in the GDPR which says you can't email personal data.

Of course it would be a breach of the GDPR if the data is extremely sensitive and has special security arrangements, and you are emailing it to an unsecure location.

The concern is normally for people in sales jobs taking customer lists to a new employer, for example.

Manxman_in_exile

steampowered wrote: »

The fact that this was data relating to vulnerable people, and the fact you work for a law firm (which presumably trained you on this sort of thing) is beginning to make this sound like gross misconduct unfortunately.

There's no harm in asking to get paid for your notice period I suppose but I wouldn't go down the legal road.

It's not the OP dealing with vulnerable people - that was jobbingmusician giving an example from a previous job.


What do law firms pay commission for? (Not relevant - just curious)

TELLIT01

E-mailing unencrypted confidential information to an external server would be classed as gross misconduct my many organisations these days.
I accept that the was no malice in the actions of the OP, and it may be that her now former employer is of the same mind. That wouldn't change the fact that the employer felt bound to act, particularly given the sector in which they operate.

molio67

They must have been looking i guess. Turns out they are going to pay me my commission.

molio67

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

It's not the OP dealing with vulnerable people - that was jobbingmusician giving an example from a previous job.


What do law firms pay commission for? (Not relevant - just curious)

I sold employment law and health & safety services to companies